car has been abandond due to business adventures for two years as you can see but it is now getting sorted as in cleaned, repainted and rebuilt.

 

some mods there to that.

 

Fook, i remember reading about that car in Street Machine when i was about 15! It had goldy coloured wheels i think and a rover V8.

 

yeah car been built for nearly 20 years now by a very clever man called john beardmore from leeds area, my bro has had the car around 4 years now.
yeah it had a mildly tuned 3.5 rover v8 engine but was starting to become tired then the ls1 engine came up from a camero. around 320 bhp from a standard ls1 so sould be fun.

 

 

Chip will get very moist over this!

Pm going his way!




Looks awesome

 

going to be interesting when finished

 

 

Is that the one the beardsmore brothers did originally?

Awesome idea putting a LS1 into something so light, should be insane!

 

Page from my well-thumbed copy of Street Machine, when it was featured back in 1990.



John and Robin Beardsmore are legends.

Good luck with the rebuild. I love this car!

 

legends is an understatement after having a look at their work.
i still cant believe john was only 19-20 years old when he built this.

the engine is geting a bigger cam, different headers and a huge carb to get power into the 400's.

 

That's nuts!

I remember one from an ancient Max Power's back page... (pre kits 'n' tits era )
Sure it was a Robin, and running either a YB or tuned Pinto... and it was popping a wheelie with the bonnet flying off in the process

 

Good effing God

 

I remember this from about 1996 - wasnt it ROver powered back then?

 

as people have said, John beadmores old car, so so

 

i remember reading the build diary too, awesome!

 

thats Mad

 

i remember that it was bright green and im sure it was a v8 also ade

 

 

what a weapon

 

awesome

 

I think it was 2.8 from a capri iirc

 

The max power robin van had a 2.0 pinto in it.
Anyone remember the max power with the y reg turbo powered xr3's on the cover,one white,one blue with tiger stripes?
I cut the cars out of the cover and stuck them on my school book,oh those were the days!!!!!!!!

 

hi mate


i always thought that the ls1 camero engine was 400 bhp as standard


marco

 

320 bhp in camero
345 bhp in a corvette

the ls2 is 400bhp as standard

 

Yep, I remember that
Had a Warrior wide arch kit and whaletail

I was also a high school reader in the early days of Max!

 

Yep, I remember that
Had a Warrior wide arch kit and whaletail

I was also a high school reader in the early days of Max! [/quote]
That's the fookin one!

 

nuts